Critical issues in assimilation of healthcare information systems

PACIS 2010 - 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1774-1781

  Sulaiman, Hidayah ^a   Wickramasinghe, Nilmini ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Healthcare; Healthcare information system; Technology innovation; Technology organization environment

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION; CRITICAL ISSUES; HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY; HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEM; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION; TECHNOLOGY-ORGANIZATION-ENVIRONMENT;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION USE; INNOVATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PERSONNEL; TECHNOLOGY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84856006067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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